I am a creature of a day. I am a spirit come from God, and returning to God. I want to know one thing: the way to heaven. God himself has condescended to teach me the way. He has written it down in a book. Oh, give me that book! At any price give me the book of God. Let me be a man of one book. -John Wesley
If there is anything in my thoughts or style to commend, the credit is due to my parents for instilling in me an early love of the Scriptures. – Daniel Webster
Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily read me a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart. – John Ruskin
This Book had to be written by one of three people: good men, bad men or God. It couldn’t have been written by good men because they said it was inspired by the revelation of God. Good men don’t lie and deceive. It couldn’t have been written by bad men because bad men would not write something that would condemn themselves. It leaves only one conclusion. It was given by divine inspiration of God. – John Wesley
The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world. – Charles Dickens
I am much afraid that schools will prove to be the great gates of hell unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures, engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the scriptures do not reign paramount. – Martin Luther
We account the scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. I find more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatsoever. – Isaac Newton
Who decides what is right and wrong in the world? Who has the authority to define morality for all of creation? It is not the courts, congress, the media, public opinion, the “politically correct” police, the “tolerance” brigade or even the church. The only answer has been, is and always will be Jesus Christ. You can find His opinion on a great variety of subjects in His best seller… The Bible. – Jeffrey E. Ramey
It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible. – George Washington
I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure. – Woodrow Wilson
I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the Bible daily. – Sir Isaac Newton
Believe me, sir, never a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the Word of God before I go to bed. – Douglas MacArthur
The fundamental basis of this nation’s law was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teaching we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul. I don’t think we emphasize that enough these days. – Harry S. Truman
Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet anchor of your liberties, write its precepts on your hearts and practice them in your lives. – Ulysses S. Grant
It is impossible to enslave mentally or socially a Bible-reading people. The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom. – Horace Greeley
It is necessary for the welfare of the nation that men’s lives be based on the principles of the Bible. No man, educated or uneducated, can afford to be ignorant of the Bible. – Theodore Roosevelt
The Bible is a book in comparison with which all others are of minor importance, and which in all my perplexities and distresses has never failed to give me light and strength. – Robert E. Lee
If we will not be governed by God, then we will be ruled by tyrants. – William Penn
Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution center for Bibles in many languages. – Corrie Ten Boom
I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ. – Goethe
The Bible is worth all other books which have ever been printed. – Patrick Henry
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that. – Mccosh
Tell your prince that this Book is the secret of England’s success. – Queen Elizabeth
I believe that the Bible is to be understood and received in the plain and obvious meaning of its passages; for I cannot persuade myself that a book intended for the instruction and conversion of the whole world should cover its true meaning in any such mystery and doubt that none but critics and philosophers can discover it. – Daniel Webster
Education is useless without the Bible. – Daniel Webster
A thorough understanding of the Bible is better than a college education. – Theodore Roosevelt
Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ. – St. Jerome
So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens of their country and respectable members of society. I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year. – John Quincy Adams
Of the many influences that have shaped the United States into a distinctive nation and people, none may be said to be more fundamental and enduring than the Bible. – President Ronald Reagan
I am profitably engaged in reading the Bible. Take all of this Book that you can by reason and the balance by faith, and you will live and die a better man. It is the best Book which God has given to man. – More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands. – Thomas Jefferson.
That Book (the Bible) is the rock on which our Republic rests. – Andrew Jackson
In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength. – Robert E. Lee
The word of God hidden in the heart is a stubborn voice to suppress. – Billy Graham
I have known ninety-five of the world’s great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible. – W. E. Gladstone
To the influence of this Book we are indebted for the progress made in civilization, and to this we must look as our guide in the future. – Ulysses S. Grant
All Scripture is God-breathed and He doesn’t waste His breath. – Jim McCotter
England has two books; the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare, but the Bible made England. – Victor Hugo
The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes its extension, behold! It is upon this table: This book, surpassing all others. I never omit to read it, and every day with some pleasure. – Napoleon
Any number of people assume that the Bible says that Eve ate an apple, or that Jonah was swallowed by a whale. Yet the Bible never says a word about whales or apples. In the former case it refers to a fish, which might imply any sort of sea-monster; and in the second, to the essential experience of fruition, or tasting the fruit of the tree, which is obviously more general and even more mystical . . . The things that look silly now are the first rationalistic explanations rather than the first religious or primitive outlines. If those original images had been left in their own natural mystery of dark fruition or dim monsters of the deep, nobody would have quarreled with them half so much . . . But it is unfair to turn round and blame the Bible because of all these legends and jokes and journalistic allusions, which are read into the Bible by people who have not read the Bible. – G. K. Chesterton
Some people like to read so many [Bible] chapters every day. I would not dissuade them from the practice, but I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses all day than rinse my hand in several chapters. Oh, to be bathed in a text of Scripture, and to let it be sucked up in your very soul, till it saturates your heart! – Charles Spurgeon
It will greatly help you to understand scripture if you note – no only what is spoken and written, but of whom and to whom, with what words, at what time, where, to what intent, with what circumstances, considering what goes before and what follows. – Miles Coverdale, in his introduction to his Bible translation.
When you read God’s Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, “It is talking to me, and about me.” – Soren Kierkegaard
I was humbled to learn that God sent His Son to die for a sinner like me. I was comforted to know that through the Son, I could find God’s amazing grace, a grace that crosses every border, every barrier and is open to everyone. Through the love of Christ’s life, I could understand the life changing powers of faith…Faith changes lives. I know, because faith has changed mine. I could not be governor if I did not believe in a divine plan that supersedes all human plans. Politics is a fickle business. Polls change. Today’s friend is tomorrow’s adversary. People lavish praise and attention. Many times it is genuine; sometimes it is not. Yet I build my life on a foundation that will not shift. – George W. Bush
Never place a period where God has placed a comma. God is still speaking. – Gracie Allen
We do not read the Bible the way it is; we read it the way we are. -Evelyn Uyemura
Bible reading is an education in itself. -Lord Tennyson
Reading the Bible without meditating on it is like trying to eat without swallowing. -Anonymous
The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed. – Thomas Paine
It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion; the Bible seeks to open one. – William Sloane Coffin
I prefer to believe those writers who get their throats cut for what they write. – Pascal
Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord’s Prayer. – Napolean
For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant. – Martin Luther
The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian. – AW. Tozer
I may add that the result of my 45 years of study of the Bible has led me all the time to a firmer faith that in the Old Testament, we have a true historical account of the history of the Israelite people. – Robert Dick Wilson
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